Devvy Kidd Thru the Eyes of a Nurse ! Sun Feb 15 15:44:01 2004 64.140.158.137 Subject: Please pass far and wide Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:53:11 -0500 From: Devvy Kidd I saw what is described below first hand last October when I visited my dear friend, Brig. General Ben Partin. He had very serious surgery on his neck at Walter Reed and I visited him there for several hours. By the time I got to his ward, I was a basket case from looking at exactly what this nurse below has described. It was simply awful up close. Never in my life have never seen anything like I saw that day at Walter Reed. I have never been to war. I have never seen the carnage up close and all those men were cleaned up. I can't imagine what it must have been like for them to receive the wounds I saw. It was all I could do not to just start crying. Instead I looked them all in the eye and gave 'em a look of respect. At least I hope that's what it looked like instead of what I felt - sick to my stomach. By the time I got to Ben's room, I must have been white as a ghost 'cause the first thing out of his mouth was, "What's wrong?" When I told him, Ben said it was nothing but a constant flow of maimed and injured and that there were never enough beds. In Bush's interview with Tim Russert, he said, "I'm a war President." He certainly is and I'm sure all those who make their paycheck off this immoral and illegal war just gush over such pillow talk. Devvy * * * * * Sent: 2/12/2004 1:46:11 PM Subject: Please pass far and wide Thru the Eyes of a Nurse ! I am an Army Nurse Corps Captain stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington D.C., and I feel compelled to share with anyone who will listen what I have seen. You see, when OIF troops are evac'd out of Germany, the huge majority are brought here to WRAMC by the Air Force flight nurses and docs. I do not have access to any of the numbers of how many wounded and what types of injuries, etc, but I can honestly tell you that the OIF wounded occupy more than half of our two major intensive care units (SICU and MICU) at any given time. At times, we get so full and are expecting more to arrive, that we have to hound the docs to transfer somebody out of our unit to a ward upstairs so we have some beds for these soldiers. Most of these wounded soldiers come in to our unit on a ventilator breathing for them, with severe wounds caused by IEDs (improvised roadside bombs) or AK-47 GSW (gun shot wounds). Many, many soldiers have already lost arms, limbs, or eyes before they even get to us, and many have received dozens of units of blood before they left Germany. I am very proud that I am privileged to take care of these brave men and women, but it breaks my heart to realize that their incredible loss that they and their loved ones will have to deal with for the rest of their life seems to have not been for the good of our country. Rather, their pain and sorrow has merely allowed a few greedy souls to make a power grab for more wealth and control. One of my dear friends has tried to convince me that this is all part of God's plan, and the death and pain is for some greater purpose that our leaders are not telling us yet. I wish I could believe her. It would make my job and daily life much easier, but I cannot buy it. I apologize to the reader for my tangential thought processes, but this never ending situation is getting to many military nurses. Anyway, the following is my main point in reaching out to you. As you might be aware, the press is being tightly controlled and what is being reported from a medical standpoint is only a fraction of the true reality. Yes, I do believe the daily number of killed that CNN and whoever report is accurate. What I am saying is that the walking wounded are being sorely ignored. Don't believe me? Walter Reed is an open base, not a tightly controlled fort. Just have a valid ID and consent to a vehicle search. Then park, and walk inside. You will see so many 20 something mostly men missing arms, legs, and eyes. The blinders covering your eyes will be ripped away as you see the poor families making their daily walk from the Malone house to the wards and units to see their son's or husbands. It is so sad to see young wives and fiancée's cry over their honey who was in Iraq less than one month before losing both legs, and have several abdominal surgeries, which leaves his belly crisscrossed with staples. And now he is fighting for his life from the infection that the injuries have caused. And that is just one example of what I saw this week. I will spare you any more wrenching true stories. God help our men and women in uniform. Please do something to end this madness. ==================== APFN-1 YahooGroups: Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn-1/join Unsubscribe: apfn-1-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com APFN MSG BOARD: `In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html APFN CONTENTS PAGE: http://www.apfn.org/old/apfncont.htm Without Justice, there is JUST_US! 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